Ambiguous Name: And Then I Said

This is another one of those articles that could use quite a bit of help. From what I can gather, it refers to situations where the work jumps in on the tail end of a conversation or story, whether a Noodle Incident, or recap of previous events. The problem is that it has a dialogue title that doesn't describe it very well, the description could use a bit of work, and it only has 9 wicks and 13 inbounds. I propose a rename.

So it's comparable to Orphaned Punchline, then?

Yes. A sister trope I guess.

Wait, I must've read it wrong the first time.

It seems to be about a character starting to say something, but then the scene switches directly to the subject of the conversation. Like the "I Know What We Can Do" Cut.

edited 19th May '12 9:37:32 AM by Stratadrake

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Seems to me this trope has two distinct parts. One is when we cut in on a character wrapping up a retelling of the events we just watched (the "and then I said" bit giving us just enough context to recognize what he's talking about). The other is a bog-standard Orphaned Punchline or Noodle Incident where we hear the wrap up but have no context on it.

I don't think these should be the same trope just because the phrase "And then I said" is used in both cases. In fact this doesn't seem like a trope at all, it's just a piece of dialogue.

I'd suggest either a rename (say, "Offscreen Recap") and cleanup to remove the Noodle Incident examples, or just delete.

edited 2nd Jul '12 10:15:48 AM by Escher

Sounds good. Now hopefully a few more people can show up so that we can establish consensus.

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